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... side of the bay , which a Graham had acquired from Robert Bruce in exchange for the lands of Cardross in Dumbartonshire . The name is said to be of Gaelic origin , Alt or Ald Moineros , the Burn of the Mossy Point ; but the prefix must ...
... side of the bay , which a Graham had acquired from Robert Bruce in exchange for the lands of Cardross in Dumbartonshire . The name is said to be of Gaelic origin , Alt or Ald Moineros , the Burn of the Mossy Point ; but the prefix must ...
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... side of the bay , which a Graham had acquired from Robert Bruce in exchange for the lands of Cardross in Dumbartonshire . The name is said to be of Gaelic origin , Alt or Ald Moineros , the Burn of the Mossy Point ; but the prefix must ...
... side of the bay , which a Graham had acquired from Robert Bruce in exchange for the lands of Cardross in Dumbartonshire . The name is said to be of Gaelic origin , Alt or Ald Moineros , the Burn of the Mossy Point ; but the prefix must ...
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... side at Flodden , where he commanded a division of the Scottish van . His grandson fell with equal glory at Pinkie , a field only less disastrous to his country than the field of Flodden . But the most conspicuous of the ancestors of ...
... side at Flodden , where he commanded a division of the Scottish van . His grandson fell with equal glory at Pinkie , a field only less disastrous to his country than the field of Flodden . But the most conspicuous of the ancestors of ...
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... side over the fair heritage of his sires . But another of his father's tastes he did not share . The smell of tobacco is said to have been peculiarly disagreeable to him , and sums for tobacco and pipes are frequent in the old Earl's ...
... side over the fair heritage of his sires . But another of his father's tastes he did not share . The smell of tobacco is said to have been peculiarly disagreeable to him , and sums for tobacco and pipes are frequent in the old Earl's ...
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... side of wisdom . Meanwhile the nobles waited . Though they could har- ass and delay the Tithes Commission , they were power- less to resist it seriously . The constitution of the Scottish Parliament rendered all opposition to the Crown ...
... side of wisdom . Meanwhile the nobles waited . Though they could har- ass and delay the Tithes Commission , they were power- less to resist it seriously . The constitution of the Scottish Parliament rendered all opposition to the Crown ...
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